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I’ve long resisted publishing regularly on this blog. I want each post to be good, and this has kept me from posting often. Of course, others note the importance of regularly publishing. Seth Godin has noted that the daily blog post is crucial, from his perspective, for defining your voice and getting lots of ideas… Continue reading On publication frequency

It’s always a pleasant surprise when two of your favorite knowledge providers / bloggers / thought leaders talk about the same idea from two different angles. Seth Godin’s Akimbo podcast (Fooled by Spectrum) recently looked at the concept of ideas spreading through media, and the difference between centralized media (TV, radio, etc), and the internet… Continue reading On branding and online platforms

Our semester is wrapping up here at LCC. Part of that process is the thesis defenses for our Senior students. They’re each required to write a ~25-40 page thesis following a specific methodology, and then defend that thesis publicly. Each student has a faculty adviser they work with during their Senior year. For this post,… Continue reading On Thesis Advising

The idea of a YouTuber being a ‘star’ or a dream career has been floating around recently; it was on a recent Hello Internet episode (maybe #109, although I think it was a followup to that episode in a later episode). It’s an interesting aspiration; the combination of celebrity and entrepreneur; seemingly very ideal to… Continue reading YouTuber as idealized career

As mentioned before, I teach Web Design at LCC International University. It’s about my 10th time teaching the course, and I feel like it’s a well-developed course. One thing that my students have had trouble understanding recently is the limitations of different site building tools. In the course, they build a site with HTML&CSS, WordPress.com,… Continue reading The limitations of WordPress and Wix

My love of all things Seth Godin is fairly well established on this blog – I’m a long-time blog reader, faithful podcast listener, Podcast Fellowship participant. I found it very interesting that Seth unified all of his online workshops into The Akimbo Workshops somewhat recently. They’re available at akimbo.com – check them out! However, about… Continue reading The Akimbo TLD’s and marketability

99 Percent Invisible is a great podcast. I’ve listened for a few years now, and enjoy almost every episode. Sometimes, they have partnerships with other Radiotopia shows (or other shows) and re-air parts of those episodes. Usually, I find these less interesting than their original episodes, maybe because the episodes need to be contorted to… Continue reading Everything Is Alive is delightful

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Hailing originally from central PA, USA, Mike now explores the world from a home base in Lithuania. He gained a Masters in Information and Communication Sciences along the way, enjoys timelapse video, and collects ideas on how to optimize everything.